The EAA was founded in 1953 by a group of individuals who were interested in building their own airplanes.

Through the decades, the organization has expanded to include antiques, classics, warbirds, aerobatic aircraft, ultralights, helicopters, and contemporary manufactured aircraft.

More importantly, the organization focuses on people, offering the opportunity to make new aviation friends and form relationships while encouraging the sharing of information, stories, and enthusiasm.

The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force.

CAP is a benevolent, non-profit organization whose 65,000 members execute over 90% of all federally funded inland Search and Rescue missions.

The United States Congress mandated three missions for CAP in its charter: Emergency Services, Cadet Programs, and Aerospace Education. CAP utilizes over 550 organization-owned aircraft, over 4,000 member owned aircraft, and almost 1,000 ground vehicles nationwide to execute its missions.

Sisters Organized to make Aviation
Dreams a Reality

The goal of Sisters Organized to make Aviation Dreams a Reality (S.O.A.R.) is to guide young women with an interest in aviation in the right direction.

We want to fuel the desire, feed the urge, add to the passion, expand the ideas, set free the impulse, preserve the longingwhether to pilot, navigate, design, fix, build, engineer, maintain, or controlin General Aviation, Commercial Aviation, or in the Military. Young women who are looking to the sky for their future sometimes need encouragement to reach for it.

Aviation Science

The NASA Learning Technologies Project (LTP) is a national initiative that seeks to prototype revolutionary technologies for educational applications.

The goals of the NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project are to: Increase students' interest in and proficiency of math and science, through the use of computing and communications technology, and by using NASA's mission in aeronautics as a theme, assist in creating low cost, efficient network solutions that will enable schools to gain access to the Internet for educational resources.

The NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project has a three point approach to achieving its goals:

The Science Information Infrastructure is a collaboration between science museums, researchers and educators to increase public use of remote sensing data and develop planetary and space science online curricula for use in the classroom.

The SII project began in 1995 after receiving funding from NASA through a Cooperative Agreement Notice entitled "Public Use of Earth and Space Science Data over the Internet". Distribution of SII online educational activities is through the SEGway (Science Education Gateway) web site.

Goddard's Education Office has begun an endeavor to make education materials easily available to teachers and students alike.

Today you can look at featured education programs, science briefs and investigations designed for Middle and High school students and you can participate in piloting new education materials by simply clicking here.